William Seward Burroughs II (/ ˈbʌroʊz /; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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Nov 14, 2025 · William S. Burroughs was an American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world.

Burroughs acquires the ElectroData Corporation of Pasadena, California, a leading producer of computing hardware. Burroughs is awarded an Air Force contract to develop a transistorized …

Burroughs is often called one of the greatest and most influential writers of the twentieth century, most notably by Norman Mailer whose quote on Burroughs, "The only American novelist living …

William S. Burroughs, one of the three seminal writers of the Beat Generation (the other two being his friends Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg), was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 5, …

Jan 26, 2014 · Burroughs was a brilliant student, graduating from Harvard with honors, in English, in 1936. He sojourned often in Europe; in Vienna, he briefly studied medicine and frequented …

Apr 2, 2014 · William S. Burroughs was a Beat Generation writer known for his startling, nontraditional accounts of drug culture, most famously in the book 'Naked Lunch.'

The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company by William Seward …

Mar 26, 2024 · William S. Burroughs: The Inventor Who Fueled a Computation Revolution. From a young age, William Seward Burroughs was consumed by his creations. In his backyard …